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Using Free and Open Source Tools to TeachDigital Citizenship

Donald Watkins

Franklinville Central School

Digital Citizenship has become a hot topic in K-12 andattendees will gain first hand experience along withcurriculum ideas and curriculum sources forformulating your school community's own digitalcitizenship program.

Background

•My interest in cell phones as learning tools began severalyears ago.

oI lead an effort in our school to encourage responsibleuse of cell phones by students.

push back from teachers and administrators

•I want to empower students to use powerful tools theycarry in their pockets.

•A passion for using open source software--

Openoffice.organd later free tools in Google Apps with low incomestudents

These level the playing field and increase digitalaccess.

•I'm convinced that we spend more time training thaneducating.

Background continued..

•Interest in building online learning communities datingback to PHPbb about six years ago.

•Learned about Moodle in 2005

•Setup our first online learning community using Drupal in2007 for an English APPR project.

oStudents engaged in learning not limited to school day.

•Advocated teaching students how to use social networks totheir advantage. Administrative push back

June 2009

•I am summoned to the principal's office for a meeting.

•Building principal had a problem-

a sexting incident hadoccurred and he was looking my way for answers.

•I am asked to consider teaching a course that will focus ontechnology preparedness that will include the use of cellphones in an educational setting.

o"You know more about 'this stuff' than anyone else onthe faculty."

•I ask for the weekend to think about it

After consulting...

•Talked to my wife and one other teacher.

•Spent the weekend developing a vision of what the courseshould be and what I needed to accomplish those goals.

•Emphasis on the use of cell phone, social media and otherWeb 2.0 tools including Google Apps for Education.

•I request permission to attend NECC 2009 in DC.

•Meet with school psychologist and other teachers tocollaborate.

Initial thoughts

•I want to create a safe school hosted community to teachthe basics of online interaction

oI believe that part of the problem involves poor self-esteem.

•Going to leverage my experience with LAMP.

•Initially planned to use Drupal for the social platform alongwith Google Docs and Mail.

•Purchased books on designing social sites with Drupal andset the server up on a Ubuntu virtual machine in ourVMWare ESX server farm.

More thoughts...

•I wanted to create a social community that was safe andprovided students with a place to make mistakes andlearn.

•First setup a Drupal site, v. 6.14

Read two books on the topic.

Drupal for Education and E-Learning by BillFitzgerald, whose blog I read regularly.

Drupal 6 Social Networking by Michael Peacock

•I got a theme for Drupal that gave it a Facebook "look."

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Considered using Wikispaces or PBWiki in conjunction withthe Drupal social site.

•Decided to use Google Docs and Mail too.

Google Docs

•We had been using Google Docs and Mail in our district fortwo years.

oLearned at NECC 2009 that Google would release Postinisupport in mid-July.

Concerns about complying with CIPA and COPPA wereallayed with strong security suite protection.

oBegan to develop lesson plans for the first three weeksof instruction that centered around the use of GoogleDocs.

•I also believe that students generally lack an awareness ofthe global nature of the internet and cell phoneconnectivity. We spend a great deal of time discussing thatand Moodle gives them an opportunity to practice writingpositively.

A hybrid format

Instruction in both a face to face and online format..

Moodle aids in the organization of the classroom lecture, butalso serves as a repository of the lecture

materials whichstudents can return to in study halls, other classes or insome cases from homes or other community internet accessareas.

Moodle facilitates constructivist learning where students canbe exposed to a topic and then actually use tools withinMoodle to learn more or gain experience. The use of dailyblogs aids in student writing, understanding of what isappropriate in a social network and what constitutes onlinesafety and even a laboratory for cyber-crime prevention.

Digital Citizenship Defined

Digital Citizenship in Schools

by Mike Ribble & Gerald Bailey(ISTE Press)

Students engaged in learning

Digital Access

Full electronic participation in society.

" A person who works against injustice, not for individualrecognition or personal advantage, but for the benefit ofall people. In realizing this task--

•We discuss open source software and students are providedwith a copy of Ubuntu Linux and the Open Disc project athttp://www.theopendisc.com/.

•We study copyright and copyleft and its implications in theclassroom and at home.

•We examine plagiarism and what that means and sites likeTurnitin.com and how they can be helpful.

oWe discuss the consequences of plagiarism.

oWe also discuss revision history and how teachers caneasily detect rapidly created work.

The OpenDisc open sourcesoftware project.

Ubuntu.com Linux operating system

Digital Health and Wellness

•The elements of physical and psychological well beingrelated to digital technology use.

•We study the effects of long term use of technologyincluding proper posture and conditions like carpal tunnelsyndrome. We also talk about prolonged exposure toradiation from computers, LCDs and cell phones.

Digital Commerce

•The buying and selling of goods online.

•Privacy in the digital age is very important. We've talkedabout inappropriate messages and inappropriate picturesbut there is another area that is extremely important andthat is safeguarding personal information like socialsecurity numbers, credit card information and otherpersonal information.

•Most of my students don't have credit cards but they canpositively influence parents and older siblings.

Digital Security

•The precautions that all technology users must take toguarantee their personal safety and security on thenetwork.

•We study about virus protection, and provide sites likehttp://pack.google.com and http://free.avg.com wherestudents and their parents can get good free software toprotect their computers from malware and phishing scams.